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Episode 526: Was the Constitution Divinely Inspired? with Kaitlyn Schiess
The Holy Post
What's So Interesting About Benjamin Franklin's Proposal?
One of my favourite tories from the constitutional convention, again, involving benjamin franklin. He proposes to the congress that they begin every morning with prayer. His proposal was overwhelmingly rejected by the delegates in philadelphia at the so they had no prayers, and they had no clergy come in. They didn't do devotions before. But it kind of flies in the face of those who even want to argue this is a divinely providential document that god's hand was a part of craftyang. I would never go so far as to say it was divinely inspired or even providential. What are the dangers? You think of just ordinary, run of the mill christians in americ
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